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The Standard Babylonian Myth of Nergal and Ereskigal

The Standard Babylonian Myth of Nergal and Ereskigal

Ponchia, Simonetta
Luukko, Mikko

Paperback

Series: State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts, Book 8

Miscellaneous LanguagesAncient History GeneralBible Studies

ISBN10: 9521013427
ISBN13: 9789521013423
Publisher: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project
Published: Sep 30 2013
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.41 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

The Myth of Nergal and Ereskigal, preserved in two versions, a Middle-Babylonian one from Tell el-Amarna and a much longer Standard Babylonian one probably composed in Assyria in the early first millennium BCE, tells the story of why and how Nergal, son of Ea, the god of wisdom, descended into the Netherworld by the ladders of heaven, fell in love with Ereskigal, queen of the Netherworld, and eventually deposed her and usurped her throne. Like all Mesopotamian myths, the story is replete with enigmatic details, puns and intertextual allusions making it a heavily encoded text with hidden levels of interpretation. In allegorical reading, the myth was a complement to the Descent of Istar (SAACT 6), and the mission of Nergal could be associated with that of the king as a heavenly savior sent to the rescue of the sinners.

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